Fred Rotbart
Consultant, Algorithm Specialist And Technologist at Softbart Pty. Ltd.
Shorashim, North District, Israel
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Top SchoolFred Rotbart is a consultant and algorithm specialist with over three decades of software development experience and deep academic roots in theoretical physics. He combines advanced algorithm design, AI (including Hierarchical Temporal Memory), ML, NLP, image processing and GPGPU acceleration to translate research-grade ideas into production systems, having held CTO and Chief Scientist roles across startups and large telecoms. Notable achievements include patented word-sense disambiguation technology ported to CUDA to cut preprocessing from 13 hours to under 5 minutes, practical HTM and economic/climate modeling work, and Python bindings contributions to the high-performance Halide project. He advises on due diligence and delivers pragmatic solutions for complex problems such as financial risk acceleration, delivery-time prediction and medical image analysis. Based in Israel, he blends academic publication and patent track records with hands-on coding and workshop teaching, making him equally at home inventing algorithms and operationalizing them for real-world impact.
15 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Theoretical Physics, PhD, Theoretical Physics at Tel Aviv UniversityMSc, Theoretical Physics, MSc, Theoretical Physics at Technion-Machon Technologi Le' IsraelBSc Hon, Physics, BSc Hon, Physics at Monash University
English, Hebrew, German
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Github Skills (12)
compiler10
halide10
compiler-compiler10
python10
dsl9
image-processing8
gpu7
pandas6
anaconda6
jupyter-notebook6
left-join6
jupyter6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
halide/Halide
Apr 2014 - Oct 2014
a language for fast, portable data-parallel computation
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Fred primarily contributed to the Python bindings for the Halide library, focusing on integrating Halide with Python. Their work included building and testing Python bindings on OS X, implementing examples, and generating code identical to C++ versions. The commits also involved updating the Python build process to reflect changes in the Halide code, and correcting build commands for examples, and also added the functionality of the existing C++ code to Python.
computationhexagonhalideparallelgpu
fcr/JAWS
Jul 2011 - Nov 2012
Contributions:20 commits in 1 year 4 months
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